Canada's new sports sweetheart doesn't play hockey, push or sweep in curling or, in fact, have anything to do with winter sports. Eugenie Bouchard is a tennis phenom.

And she's having her greatest impact in the hottest sports action on the planet. She is among the final four players in the 2014 Australian Open women's competition. Bouchard faces China's Li Na on Thursday for a berth in the finals. The Bouchard-Li match will be telecast after 9:30 p.m. ET Wednesday.

So who is Bouchard? Some basic facts:

Born: Feb. 25, 1994, in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. She is 19. Westmont is an affluent suburb on Montreal.

Eugenie? She prefers Genie. ("Like Genie in a bottle.") Check this video for more.

And she's a Justin Bieber fan. Well, no one's perfect. She also has her own legion of fans: Genie's Army. One can't blame them for desiring a tall, athletic blonde who is the rising glamour girl of tennis. No that she tarts it up.

No Canadian woman's tennis player has been in a grand slam semifinal since Carling Bassett's run in the U.S. Open 30 years ago. And you remember Carling, right? We didn't think so.

There's more from Canada's National Post, including what Bouchard's impact means for tennis in her hockey-made homeland.

"Genie is such a bright young lady," Hatem McDadi, senior vice president of tennis development for Tennis Canada, told the publication.

Bouchard has a fan in Martina Navratilova, who touted her as a "potential Grand Slam champion" Bouchard beat Ana Ivanovic at Wimbledon last June.

Why Eugenie? She and twin sister Beatrix are named after the daughters of England's Prince Andrew. To keep the princess theme going, another sister is named after a Monaco royal. And not to be left out, her brother is William, same as the heir to the English throne.